Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16780, Hezekiah Edwards, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Edwards Hezekiah
8.16.780
Carded.
CONTENTS

Connecticut N o 28,202
Hezekiah Edwards
of Trumbull in the State of Connecticut who was a Pri. of Inf. t. ant. in the Comp y commanded by Captain Nickols of the Reg t commanded by Col. Lamb in the Connecticut line for
8 m th subs. $ 26.66 5 mos 20 dys. arly. 23.57 50.23
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 50 Dollars 23 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of Ap l . 1834. and Hon. G. Tomlinson
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834. 150.69 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Sep t . 25.11 $ 175.80
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Bendire Clerk at 82 Vol. Page 12

Horatio N. Edwards Trumbull Conn.
17 months Service
25659
Hon. G. Tomlinson Senate U.S.
G. Tomlinson
Page 32

State of Connecticut
Tanfield County p. March 20 th 1831
Personally appeared before the Court of Probate in the District of Shastford in said County. He, the Applicant, being first sworn, further declares & says in addition to his former Declaration that he did enlist for the Continental Army for the period of 9 months in the month of March 1780 as before stated that he had now produced the Muster Rolls of Capt Robert Walker's Company for 6 months & which were found among the papers of Lieut. Genl. H. Webb. These Rolls show the time when Applicant joined Walker's Company but not the time of his enlistment which Applicant knows was in the month of March & that there was snow on the ground. Applicant went first to Shastford & took a commission Col. Benjamin H. Webb that he was accepted & shortly after was ordered to go on & join the Army which the Applicant did at Nelson's Point & there served until he joined Capt. Walker's Company. The reason the Applicant joined Capt. Walker's Company was that he was acquainted with said Walker & the other officers in that Company & the Applicant applied to the Officer in Command at Nelson's Point & requested permission to join Walker's Company which request was granted as Capt. Walker's Company was not then full. The Applicant has a mistake in his former Declaration in stating that he went immediately into the Fort after he arrived at Nelson's Point. The fact was that he served some time at the Point before he went into the Fort in Capt. Walker's Company but precisely how long he cannot state. The Applicant was not paid when he was discharged but since that period & in consequence of an act of Judge Edmond a new act of Congress now has state (some years since) the Applicant procured his pay to the amount of $8 per month. The Applicant further declares that although he had no recollection of seeing Major James Beardsley at Crompond in Capt. David Nichols' Company when that Company was called into service for 2 months yet that said Beardsley does not recollect him. That he has the testimony of Jabez Beach & of Elijah Haudley who were both with him at the time and both were allowed for said service. The said Jabez Beach also testified to the Applicant's service in the Guards under Genl. Putnam for six months in the years 1779 & 80. There is a mistake in my former Declaration in stating this service to have been carried to page 30.

Days 1 st
State of Connecticut, } ss. Bridgewater County of Fairfield, }
On this 22 nd day of April 1833 personally appeared, in open Court, before the court of Bethlehem in the Shelton District in said County
now sitting, Horatio N. Edwards — a resident of Trumbull — in the County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, aged seventy two years, who being first sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
in the Spring of the year 1780 in the Month of March I enlisted at that part of Shelton (which is now Trumbull) Connecticut, for nine Months to join the Continental Army. I was a soldier in Capt. David Nichols Mi- litia Company in said Trumbull. Capt. Nichols was required to furnish two Men out of his Company for the Continental Army & the State gave a Bounty to such as would enlist — I enlisted and with Capt. Nichols we went first to Danbury in Fairfield County Conn. & there rec d . Rations to go to West Point to which place we went immediately & when we got there we were stationed in the Fort on the East Side of the River under Capt. Lieut. Isaac Hubb- ard who had command of the Fort — The Army took the field for the best of my recollections in about six weeks crossed the River at Kings Ferry & marched to Orange Town at Tappan & there encamped — I served in Capt. Robert Walkers Company of Artillery in Genl. Hunt- ingtons Brigade — Capt. Walkers Company belonged to Col. Sacketts Regiment of Artillery & under the General Knox of the Artillery — but my Company was placed in Housatonic Brigade I saw Major Brooksgo into Camp & saw him executed I was dismissed at New Windsor on the Hudson the 21 st of December 1780 & after the expiration of the 9 months for which I en- listed — James Boardman of said Trumbull was in said Company with me — In the Month of June 1778 & in previous to the above mentioned service in the Summer of the year Capt. David Nichols Militia Company (which belonged to Col. Samuel Whelens Regiment) was ordered into the United States Service & went in said Service to Red- ickbury at Crompond in the State of New York where said Company was in the Service two Months. I went as a soldier in said Company & served said 2 Months at said Crompond. Capt. Boardman & Major James Boardman both of said Trumbull were with me in said Com- pany & Service & I know the rest that I did the same this Service was according to my recollections in the year 1778.
Again in the year 1779 & previous to my Service first stated but in what Month I cannot state, I enlisted I enlisted at said Trumbull for six Months under Capt. James Burrows to go on Guard at Fairfield & went to Fairfield on said Guard & served where I served in said Guard under said Burrows & Lieut. John Hall both for said six Months. This Guard was raised by the State & was in constant service

I under strict discipline. The enemy were constantly in the Sound & often landed. We followed no other bus- iness except what devolved upon us as Soldiers. I do not know of any person living who was with me in S. Guard except Father Beach of Rumkull who is in Court to prove the same. I have made inquiry but cannot find any other witness. I am confident that I served in the Guard Six months in the year 1781. There is not any clergyman in my vicinity & the clergyman in Rumkull is a foreigner recently added to the list of my congregation. I received a written discharge when I left Capt. Waldo's Company but do not know what has become of it. I have not any docu- mentary evidence of my Service. I was born in the year 1711 on the 11th day of January as appears on my Father's Record and his Bible which I have. I was born at the place where I have always lived in Rumkull. All the officers are dead in whose service I served. The whole Service above stated is the only one I have. I was examined by Mr. Benjamin when I enlisted for the Continental Army. I have lost the said discharge which I have lost. The said Horatio Nelson hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Horatio Nelson
We, Samuel Beardsley a clergyman, residing in the town of Rumkull and David Beach residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Horatio Nelson who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 72 — years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Samuel Beardsley David Beach
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Samuel
Beardsley who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Rumkull — and that David Beach who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Rumkull — and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. Field Whipple Judge
I, R. S. Nichols Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of Horatio Nelson for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of this 20 th day of May 1833.
Office,
R. S. Nichols, Clerk
I, Field Whipple Judge of the Court aforesaid in open the District of New Bedford certify that R. S. Nichols is Clerk of said Court and that the above is his sign- ature with the seal of said Court annexed. Field Whipple Judge

Subscribed & sworn to me before me Mark Moore Judge

16,780 INVALID.
File No. 16,780
Hezekiah Edwards
Dr Rev War
Act: June 7 th 88
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 115
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Hon G Tomlinson Beualds

War Department Pension Office February 19. 1834
Sir The papers of Zechariah Edwards are returned. No such Captain as Walker appears to have belonged to Lamb's Artillery of which the rolls are in this Office. It appears that James Beardsley who testifies to this service was not allowed it in the computation of his Pension. If the claimant served in Captain Burtons company in 1779, Beardsley ought to have known the fact as he claims to have been in the same service . It should appear from the papers in the comptrollers office that this corps was in actual service at that time as well as Captain Nickols company in 1778.
I have the honor to be Your obed. Servant J. A. Edwards
How G. Tomlinson Senate U.S.

State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss Trumbull May 3 d 1833
Personally appeared Before me Elisha Beman Esq. Justice of the peace in and for said County. James Berdley of said Town of Trumbull to me well known to be a credible witness who being first sworn testifies & says. That he is well acquainted with Heremiah Edward of said Town of Trum- bull & testifies that in the year 1780 he was in the Continental service in Capt. Robert Walters company in Col. Lamb's Regiment of Artillery & served in said company from the time of my joining the army until I was discharged which was in December 1780 on the 22 d day of the month - the deponent and said Heremiah Edward were in the same mess in said company & Deponent knows the fact that said Edward was a soldier in said com- -pany during the whole time deponent was. & deponent thinks said Edward was in said company when he deponent joined, which was a short time after he enlisted & deponent served with said Edward during the whole cam- -paign further deponent says not. James Berdley
Sworn & subscribed to this 3 d day of May - 1833 - Before me Elisha Beman Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut Lansdown County District of Mansfield to the Honorable 20 th 1833. S r The subscribers Clerk of the court of Orphans in & for said District certify that William Beards lay before him the within & four other depositions were subscribed & sworn to as just true of the Deponent in & for said Lansdown County & that the same were said depositions of said Justice was deposited to be genuine - In testimony whereof the same received the my hand the seal of office on 20 th of May 1833
R. S. Nichols, Clerk

State of Connecticut Fairfield County -
On this 27 th day of April A D 1833. Personally appeared before me David Beach Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Fairfield, — Gabez Beach of Trumbull in said County of Fairfield, well known to me to be a credible witness - who on being duly sworn, testifies and says, that he the Deponent served six months at Fairfield in the State Guards in the year 1779 and 1780, and that Hesechiah Edwards of said Trumbull served there with him at the same time and tour - they served under Lieut. John Odell — Also, They, the Deponent and Hesechiah Edwards, served two months in the Militia, marched from Trumbull (then Stratford) through Reading and Danbury, to the State of New York, near the place called Cromponds, under the Command of Capt. David Nichols, Lieut. Ephraim Sterling, & Ensign Shaddens Beardlee, in the year 1778. The Deponent testifies and says that he was with said Hese. Edwards, and served there, that four with said Edwards — And further the Deponent says not —
Gabez Beach
Sworn to and subscribed on the 27 th day of April A D 1833. before me, David Beach Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut Tandrid County
District of Hartford 25 th 1883
I do hereby certify that the foregoing deposition was taken before me this day personally appeared the person described to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
R. S. Nichols, Clerk

State of Connecticut Fairfield County
On this 20 th day of March 1834
Personally appeared before me Samuel Beardslee Justice of the Peace for Fairfield County Elijah Hawley of the Town of Turnbull formerly Stratford in said Fairfield County well known to me the said Justice to be a credible witness who being sworn testified and says that he is well acquainted with Horekiah Edwards of said Turnbull formerly Stratford in said Fairfield County that in the year 1778 the deponent and Horekiah Edwards belonged to a Militia Company in Turnbull then Stratford in said Fairfield County commanded by Capt. David Nichols and was called into the United States service and went into service in the Summer of 1778 to a place called Compound in the State of New York where we served for two months constantly under said David Nichols.
And further the deponent saith not
Elijah Hawley
Sworn and subscribed this 20 th day of March 1834
before me Samuel Beardslee Justice of the Peace
District of Stratford
Fairfield County March 20 th 1834
I Mark Moore Judge of the Court of Probate for said Fairfield County. That the above is the genuine signature of Samuel Beardslee Justice of the Peace in and for said County. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court.
Mark Moore Judge